Medical assistant jobs in North Carolina

• About 3,500 medical assistant openings come up in North Carolina every year, and most career school programs across the US take 7 to 9 months, so you could be trained and working in under a year. Pick an accredited school on our North Carolina programs page and send the short "Request information" form under the program table today. It goes straight to that one school, so you can get your questions about its program answered.

North Carolina ranks 8th out of all 50 states and DC for the number of medical assistant jobs. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the state has 4.8 medical assistants for every 1,000 jobs.

State workforce analysts expect roughly 3,500 openings annually. New positions and workers leaving the field both count toward that number. North Carolina ranks 8 of 51 for yearly openings, according to Projections Central.

More jobs are expected. The number of medical assistant jobs in North Carolina is projected to reach 28,160 by 2034, up from 24,300 in 2024. That works out to 15.9% growth. Nationally, the figure is projected to rise by 12.5% (Projections Central). For projected growth, North Carolina ranks 25 of 51.

Median pay is the middle amount, meaning half of workers earn above it and half earn below it. In North Carolina, that figure is $45,140 a year. The US median is slightly higher at $45,690 (BLS). North Carolina ranks 27 of 51 for median pay.

Half of medical assistants in North Carolina earn between $38,490 and $47,500 a year. At the bottom, the lowest-paid tenth makes $36,010 or less. At the top, the best-paid tenth earns $50,850 or more.

Among the Charlotte, Raleigh, Virginia Beach, Durham and Greensboro metro areas, Charlotte has the most medical assistant jobs. It also has the highest median wage of the five.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides these figures.

The state does not regulate medical assistants, so there is no license to apply for.

Your doctor decides which tasks you handle. The North Carolina Medical Board looks at what doctors in the same specialty typically pass to staff. Tasks that require a separate license should stay with licensed people. The Board's list of delegable tasks includes flu shots and x-rays. Botox, fillers and stitching wounds are not on that list.

Our list covers 48 North Carolina schools that share their medical assistant graduate numbers with the federal education survey (College Navigator). Among them, 39 run an accredited program. Accreditation means an outside organization, either CAAHEP or ABHES, has reviewed the program against its standards.

Across the whole US, most career school programs take 7 to 9 months, and the middle program takes 9 (IPEDS).

Some programs let you take classes online. You still do your hands-on clinical training in person. This hands-on work is called an externship, where you practice in a real clinic or office under supervision.

The accredited programs in North Carolina appear on our North Carolina programs page. Look for the "Request information" form, which comes after the program table.

1. Pick the accredited program you would like to contact.
2. Add your name, email, phone, ZIP code, and the date you hope to begin.
3. Send the form in, and the school you picked will get your request.

Each request goes to just one school, so you can send a separate request for every program you want to compare.